Information Management: A Proposal
Tim Berners-Lee submitted his initial proposal for a distributed information system, outlining the need for hypertext and linked documents to manage information at CERN.
Significance
This document laid the conceptual groundwork for the World Wide Web and the need for a protocol like HTTP to facilitate its operation.
Key facts
- Date
- 1989-03-12
- Type
- invention
- Location
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland